The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-06-03

optain perpetual lU per cent. dividend,
which would OF course be paid by the pub
l!c, and would tend to prevent improve
ments and reduction OF fares.
The West End credit mooilier will per-
haps be able to gain their present object,
now that they yielded so far to the
threatened storm of popular indignation.
Their shares are put where they have q
mighty infuence-in the state house, in the
city hall and in the pockets of newspaper
proprietors.
Bribery? That is a coarse word-quite
out of fashion. The artistic, Boston style is
let a man of influence have shares at $40
with the understanding that he may sell
them when the price reaches *3O, and
needn't pay for them until that notch is
If by any strange chance this business
should become the subject of Investigation
some public men will wish they had left the
spec alone
That is the way some people feel already,
for the shares market value came
down like q collapsing balloon
when the nature Of the scheme was pub
lishcd, dropping from $38 to $83 with great
case, Fifty dollars is the mark which the
boomers have announced as the ultimate
price Of the shares, or $l2, 500, 900 alto
gether. Pretty good that for . joint stock
association which is generally credited with
owning only 81, 000, 600 worth of land, and
itself claims only q, 800, 900.
Even after Boston and Brookline have
been coaxed into building magnificent
boulevard 100 feet wide from the Back Bay
to Chestnut Hill, four miles away, and a
bridge costing e, 900, 900 or less from the
extremity of the present Back Bay to the
unimproved land opposite in Cambridge, it
would take generation to realize in in
creased land values the West End pros
pectus
The fact is the land speculation is only
side issue, the West Enders hoped to corner
horse railroad profits and get perpetual
mortgage on the public purse, and there is
still pretty fight to come.
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The Boston dailies can again fill their
Monday morning editions with readable
matter. The New York Sunday papers
have put on their Sunday morning special
train to this point, for the summer. We
have had to get along with The Sunday
Saturday evening" Tribune all winter
The Globe loses good worker in Mar
shall Cushing, who goes to Washington as
private secretary of Henry Cabot Lodge.
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If any newspaper toi1ei fails to discover
sufficient recompense in his profession let
him consider the case of Mason A. Green,
who has learned in the course of his years Of
editorial drudgery on The Springfield Re-
publican to understand the value Of the
wealth which comes to him by the recent
supreme court decision confirming the
claims of his father, Of driven-well fame.
Everybody who has a driven well has heard
Of Nelson w. Green, and will haye to pay
him royalty, if it is not already paid, but
not everybody knows that he has a mar
riageable son who holds stock in the well
business that is now worth $75, 600, and who
is, prospectively an heir to millions.
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With all the faults and jobs which disgust
the inquirer into the methods of Boston's
city government at the present time, the
municipality is furthering at least one good
work from which future generations
will reap inestimable blessings. The north
erly curve of the city, bordering on the
Charles, is already edged with wide space
of made land, curbed with granite, which
will in few years become paradise of
trees, green grass and healthful
breezes, where the densely crowded
people of the poverty stricken North End
may find near at home the refreshment
which the wealthier seek in the beautiful
drives of the neighborhoods farther west.
This pleasure ground is being created from
the dredgings of the river, and it is planned
to confront it with similar park on the
Cambridge side of the Charles.
The South End, too, is to have marine
park, which will be one of the most notable
beauties Of the city in time to come.
The plan of the park commissioners,
which they have asked the legislature to
authorize, is to connect Castle island, on
which stands old Fort Independence, with
the mainland at South Boston by solid
causeway, creating a crescent-shaped
park by filing in the fats to
the limit of the tide water. From this park,
and from an iron pier which it is proposed
to run 1900 feet into the bay, magnificent
view of the city and harbor, the headlands,
islands, fortresses and sailing craft can be
obtained. The bill has been favorably re-
ported to the Senate.
The details Of the Kapiolani expenditure
are refused to the public That is the kind
of city government we have. If Boston
wasn't superior to the state law we might
hear something from that act of a year or
two ago which forbids city to pay wine
and cigar bills for public entertainments.
All the city hall crowd have their share OF
the public food and drink.
Those who were left thirsty
when the colored queen was banqueted had
their turn when the Philadelphia council
men were entertained. These councilmen,
by the way, came on private errand-to
boom the Meigs elevated road, of which
small section is on exhibition in Cambridge,
but Boston had to pay for two days of
feasting and visits to the penitentiary and
sewer pumps down the harbor just the
same.
Bostons handsome Art museum building
is at last likely to enclose a few paintings
and sculptures worth Dragging about.
Heretofore the institution has suffered for
lack of money, but $218, 600 has been sub